(Firstly, a big emotional thanks to everyone reading this – over 500 of you apparently in the last 24 hours, that's amazing. Thanks for putting with the ramblings, the spelling mistakes and the unprofessional photos. Cheers!) The lateness of this post will tell you something of Friday night at Iceland Airwaves 2009. It was one […]
Airwaves Thursday was a good one. I seem to have posted on twitter when I got home that it was full of "random goodness and good randomness". Several hours later, I'll stick by that description. Looking at the line-up this looked like the weakest day of the festival and I thought that I would probably […]
Wow – so the first night is behind us already, it was a bit of a blur. the main thing that strikes me is how firendly this place is. I lost count of the number of familiar faces from previous years I have bumped into already, everybody wants to chat, to compare plans and suggestions, […]
The final part of my Iceland Airwaves preview is a little bit last minute, I'm writing this on the plane (Iceland Express, very good!) ready to post as soon as I can get a connection at the hotel. Then later on I'll post up my ideas for 10 events not to miss at Iceland Airwaves […]
Just back in the UK after a little, but wonderful, jaunt to Philadelphia (sport rather than music related). Enough time to unpack, and then pack again as I'll be hopping on with those adorable Iceland Express people tomorrow and landing in Reykjavik in time for the first evening's entertainment for Iceland Airwaves 2009. And, excitement […]
Part two is devoted to the noisy stuff, the loud stuff and the sweaty stuff – and three bands that would grace any rock scene anywhere in the world. Starting with Dr. Spock – awesome name, and one of Iceland's favourite live acts, they always get a big and appreciative audience at the festival. If […]
It's only a week (and a bit) until Iceland Airwaves 2009 starts, people should be getting excited. And I should be blogging more. So, I've had a load of people, mainly Airwaves virgins getting in touch and asking for advice – especially around what local bands they should go to watch. Some of them wondering […]
Sudden Weather Change are a mightly fine band. They got my attention at Airwaves last year with a free CD demo (free stuff is so great). The CD was very good, but it was followed by an album in 2009 that was better than I had expected, seriously one of the best collections I've heard […]
So, It's been a busy few days for Airwaves 2009. I've got my press pass 🙂 and I've just booked my flights and my festival pass directly from the main website at http://www.icelandairwaves.is – they've also got something called a 'friends of airwaves' card which gets you discounts on merchandise, food, drinks etc. (of course […]
How wonderful, a whole week of that excellent and tasteful drowned in sound website looked after by the members of Múm. All this, of course, is building towards their much anticipated new album, "Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know" which you can and should pre-order from here. Múm week started today with two excellent […]